Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50265)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50265). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.223, 5.10.153, 5.15.77, 6.0.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kcm: annotate data-races around kcm->rx_wait

kcm->rx_psock can be read locklessly in kcm_rfree().
Annotate the read and writes accordingly.

syzbot reported:

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in kcm_rcv_strparser / kcm_rfree

write to 0xffff88810784e3d0 of 1 bytes by task 1823 on cpu 1:
reserve_rx_kcm net/kcm/kcmsock.c:283 [inline]
kcm_rcv_strparser+0x250/0x3a0 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:363
__strp_recv+0x64c/0xd20 net/strparser/strparser.c:301
strp_recv+0x6d/0x80 net/strparser/strparser.c:335
tcp_read_sock+0x13e/0x5a0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1703
strp_read_sock net/strparser/strparser.c:358 [inline]
do_strp_work net/strparser/strparser.c:406 [inline]
strp_work+0xe8/0x180 net/strparser/strparser.c:415
process_one_work+0x3d3/0x720 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0x618/0xa70 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x1a9/0x1e0 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306

read to 0xffff88810784e3d0 of 1 bytes by task 17869 on cpu 0:
kcm_rfree+0x121/0x220 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:181
skb_release_head_state+0x8e/0x160 net/core/skbuff.c:841
skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:852 [inline]
__kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:868 [inline]
kfree_skb_reason+0x5c/0x260 net/core/skbuff.c:891
kfree_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1216 [inline]
kcm_recvmsg+0x226/0x2b0 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1161
____sys_recvmsg+0x16c/0x2e0
___sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2743 [inline]
do_recvmmsg+0x2f1/0x710 net/socket.c:2837
__sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2916 [inline]…

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50265 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.223, 5.10.153, 5.15.77, 6.0.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50265" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50265 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.223, 5.10.153, 5.15.77, 6.0.7 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.223, 5.10.153, 5.15.77, 6.0.7.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Kernel を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.223, 5.10.153, 5.15.77, 6.0.7
```
ステージング環境で 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.223, 5.10.153, 5.15.77, 6.0.7 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.6.0"},{"fixed":"4.9.332"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.10.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.298"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.264"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.223"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.153"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.77"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50265 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50265 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1162.177~14.04.1